12 fake UK passports now linked to Dubai murder

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Six more Britons had their passports cloned by the killers of a senior Hamas official, Dubai police said yesterday as they revealed a total of 15 new suspects in the assassination.

The latest information brings to 26 the total number of suspects wanted in connection with the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 12 of whom entered the Gulf state using the stolen identities of real British nationals.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said that the names and passport numbers of the new suspects corresponded to real British nationals but, again, the signatures and photographs were different.